Girls From Medugorje Won The Silver Medal At Herceg-Bosna To Woman

Medjugorje “Medjugorje handball lady won the silver gong at Herceg-Bosna to girls. Better than ours were the only womens handball Kosace from Mostar 14:9. In an exceedingly strong handball competition among the historically strong groups such as, Ljubuki Zrinski, Catherine, Capljina and Gruda, we made it to the finals and won second place. That was the goal, because we won this championship at our last appearance at the BiH. But, this does not diminish the undeniable quality of the team Kosace from Mostar, and I congratulate them on an outstanding performance, said coach Ivan Lovric. This was reported by medjugorjeplace.wordpress.com.

Medjugorje (“between the hills”) has become widely recognized in Bosnia-Hercegovina, and the world, due to six younger people who claim to have seen visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Beginning on June 24, 1981, the Blessed Mother seemed to, and later said to the idealists, God sent her to our world to help us convert our hearts and lives back to Him. Our Lady’s call is one of Peace, Love, Faith, Conversion, Prayer, and Fasting. We are each challenged to answer Our Lady’s call to change our lives, and hearts back to God. The following links to 100+ documents of information, interviews, and sworn statements provide a nicely rounded, and accurate account and perspective of one of the best events in recent history.

People travel to Medjugorje for plenty of reasons: curiosity,physical and spiritual healing, or a hunger for solutions to their private problems. Medjugorje, is a cool place of serenity and prayer, where you will find private peace. As more people make a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, many snug Medjugorje hotels have appeared to deal with the visitors.

Reportedly, more then thirty million followers have been to Medjugorje. An obscure Herzegovinian hamlet has been changed into world-famouse Marian prayer meeting place. But you can still enjoy the conventional aspects of Medjugorje with us, as we are your local connection in Medjugorje.

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To the east of Medjugorje in the Neretva valley, the Serbian Orthodox Zitomislici Priory has stood since 1566. Gravestones erected in the Middle Ages have stayed to this day in the Catholic cemetery Groblje Srebrenica in the hamlet of Miletina as well as in the hamlet of Vionica. In the area of the graveyard in Miletina, structures from the Roman age stood, whose ruins have not yet been totally excavated.

In 1882 the railroad line between Mostar and the Adriatic coast of Dalmatia was built, with a station in the hamlet of urmanci, thru which the hamlet obtained access to rail transport. In 1941, when Medjugorje belonged to the Independent State of Croatia, the Zitomislici Priory was pillaged by the Ustasha, and its refectory was burned down.

On Apr six, 2001 demonstrations took place in the region, with some violence, after the NATO-led Stabilisation Force had closed and searched the local branches of the Hercegovaka banka (“Herzegovina Bank”), through which a large part of the currency transactions in Herzegovina, including global donations meant for Medjugorje, were carried out, on charges of white-collar crime. The Franciscan Province accountable for the parish was a shareholder of the bank.

On June twenty-one, 1941, members of the Ustasha committed a massacre in the hamlet of urmanci against 559 Serb civilians, which led Mostar bishop Alojzije Miici ; to scribble a letter of protest to the Archbishop of Zagreb Aloysius Stepinac. The Red government of Yugoslavia had the pit containing the bodies sealed with a concrete slab ; hence they were only exhumed and reburied at the cemetery of Prebilovci in the bordering city of Capljina in 1989.

On June 24, 1981, reports began of Marian apparitions on Crnica hill in the Bijakovici hamlet, and shortly thereafter confrontations with Yugoslav state authorities commenced. Pilgrims ‘ donations were seized by the police and access to what was called the Apparition Hill was mostly blocked.

In October 1981, Jozo Zovko, then the pastor of the town, was given three and a half years imprisonment with forced labor for allegedly participating in a patriotic plot. After Amnesty World, among others, appealed for his release and a judicial appeal was made, the sentence was reduced in the Yugoslav Fed Court in Belgrade to one and a half years, and the clergyman was released from prison in 1983.

During the Bosnian War Medjugorje stayed in the hands of the Croatian Defence Council and in 1993 became part of the internationally unrecognized Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. By the Dayton Agreement in 1995, Medjuugorje was combined into the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, populated typically by Bosniaks and Croats.

In 1992 the city was the start point for ethnic cleansing on the part of the Croatian Defence Council, which led straight to the entire annihilation of the Serbian Orthodox Priory. The property of the Franciscan order in Bijakovici below Podbrdo (“Apparition Hill”) was employed during the war years as a testing ground for grenade launchers by the militia of a local weapons dealer.

On Apr two, 1995, at the high point of conflict within the local diocese, Bishop Ratko Peric ; was kidnapped by Croatian militiamen, beaten, and taken to a chapel run by one of the Franciscans associated with Medjuugorje, where he was held hostage for ten hours. At the drive of the mayor of Mostar he was liberated without bloodshed, with the aid of the united nations Protection Force.

After the ending of the Bosnian War, peace came to the area: UN peace troops were stationed in western Herzegovina. Efforts by the glad-hander Ante Jelavic; to make a Croatian entity were unsuccessful, and Medjugorje stayed part of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The town and its environs boomed economically after the war. Over 1000 hotel and hotel beds are available for spiritual tourism. With approximately one million visitors yearly, the municipality of Medjugorje has the most overnight stays in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Mostar International Airport, found roughly twenty km to the northeast, which was closed in 1991, re-opened for civil aviation in 1998 and has made air travel to region less complicated since that point. The road network was expanded after the Bosnian War. In addition the hamlet of Urmanci in the lower NeretvaValley has a train station on the route from Ploce to Sarajevo.